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Example sentences for "the book"

  • Captain Jim had known this, but he had not known that the picture was to be in the book.

  • With three months of liberty I ought to make a start, though--if I could only get the necessary motif for it--the SOUL of the book.

  • As the book progressed it took possession of him and he worked at it with feverish eagerness.

  • Ralph said, "Even so much I deemed by reading in the book; yet it was not told clearly that thou hadst been there.

  • Anon the two others came to him, and Ursula was clad in the same-like raiment and the elder had the book in his hand.

  • Now Ralph was reading in a book when Richard came in, but he stood up and greeted him; and Richard said smiling: "What have ye found in the book, lord?

  • The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.

  • The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man.

  • I'm positively sick of the book and I can't put it down.

  • If the book was to be bought it had better be bought at once.

  • As Mrs. Armiger says, the book's in the air; one breathes it in like the influenza.

  • The description of all the various ceremonies takes up about half of the book.

  • How cleverly, too, she treats the analysis which is the true subject of the book, that of education through love.

  • Up to page 99 of the book, Indiana has fainted three times.

  • This must have made a considerable difference to the length of the book.

  • He had strange wandering eyes, gray, and somewhat unequal in size; they seldom rested on the book, but were generally wandering about the room, from one object to another.

  • What was thought of the book by the Bible Society I do not know.

  • Young as I was, there was much connected with this journey which highly surprised me, and which brought to my remembrance particular scenes described in the book which I now generally carried in my bosom.

  • Certes, thou hast placed thy tabernacle in books, where the Most High, the Light of lights, the Book of Life, has established thee.

  • An unsuccessful attempt has been made to transfer the authorship of the book to Robert Holkot.

  • The book he has not forgotten is handed to him to be read, and while with lips stammering with fear he reads a few words, the power of the judge is loosed, the accuser is withdrawn, and death is put to flight.

  • Her thoughts kept turning to the book, in which stood written that great happiness waited her sisters, but that a fate was in store for her such as had never before been known in the world.

  • Now when the young Princess saw that everything fell out exactly as had been written in the book, she grew very sad.

  • Now the Princesses were curious to know what was written in the book, especially the eldest, and this is what she read: 'The eldest daughter of this King will marry a prince from the East.

  • And he shut up the book so quickly that he caught the Other Professor's nose between the leaves, and gave it a severe pinch.

  • She pointed to the book I had been reading, which was so lying that its title, "Diseases of the Heart," was plainly visible.

  • You see he's quite wrapped up in the book!

  • He must have got to a very interesting part of the book!

  • The book is no romance, but a domestic history compiled from tradition about two hundred years after the events which it narrates had taken place.

  • Listen, for instance, [to] the opening of the book of Jeremiah.

  • In the Book of Job, for example, the impotence of man and the omnipotence of God is the exclusive burden of its author's mind.

  • To some readers I may consequently seem, before they get beyond the middle of the book, to offer a caricature of the subject.

  • Bathsheba, turning her bright eyes to the book.

  • The boy was of the dunce class apparently; the book was a psalter, and this was his way of learning the collect.

  • The special verse in the Book of Ruth was sought out by Bathsheba, and the sublime words met her eye.

  • Folly in the concrete blushed, persisted in her intention, and placed the key on -the book.

  • The book was an old one--thirty years old, soiled, scribbled wantonly over with a strange name in every variety of enmity to the letterpress, and marked at random with dates twenty years earlier than his own day.

  • In the operation of making lard Arabella's hands had become smeared with the hot grease, and her fingers consequently left very perceptible imprints on the book-covers.

  • He was proud of the book, having obtained it by boldly writing to its London publisher, a thing he had never done before.

  • The publishers had inserted marginal drawings on many pages, but these, instead of attracting attention to the nature charm of the book, seemed to have exactly a contrary effect.

  • The book can, and does, present a hundred pictures that will draw any reader in closer touch with nature and the Almighty, my primal object in each line I write.

  • With him I had watched over it through all the years since I first had access to the book; with him I had prayed for it.

  • Mr. Porter insisted upon finishing the Little Chicken series, so that 'deserve' is a poor word for any honour that might accrue to him for his part in the book.

  • A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the book" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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